Jessica Tarlov

But what are your thoughts

I guess the odds that you're putting on our chance of a lasting ceasefire or whatever this team of J.D.

Vance, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are going to get out of the meetings in Islamabad?

And what about the straight?

Because for me, that feels like the only thing that matters now, like that we could we went in with these grandiose goals of no more nuclear program.

Right.

We're going to have regime change.

They'll never support a proxy force again.

They'll be like Hamas who Hezbollah who.

And now it's like we just need to be able to.

to get tankers through the Strait.

And the high count that they might let 15 ships through per day, we're getting 100 through per day and with no toll.

So the IRGC, to my mind, is in an incredibly strong position, especially with this quote-unquote two-week break, which they can use to rearm and also strategize with Russia and China and try to figure out what's next.

Do you give any credence to the rumors that Pete Hegseth is on the outs and that J.D.

Vance and Marco Rubio are...

maybe not like telling Trump this guy's got to go, but are definitely signaling that things have not been going well and can point fingers at him.

I mean, that New York Times piece really made Hegseth out to be the villain when it came to the pitch that Netanyahu was making for why this was the right time to go in.

He does so many jobs already, though.

That is the stuff of nightmares that he'll put like another 40-year-old on the court.

Yeah, I mean, hopefully we would be ruthless enough to do the same thing.